pictures from madrid set for more public. hospitals. first protests in bahrain gas and stun grenades activists claim the nation is going through the worst political crisis in its modern history. egypt's opposition groups call for nationwide protests to challenge the outcome of the first round of voting early results showed backing for the islamist constitution.

online on screen international news and comment live from moscow this is. security forces in bahrain of use to gas and stun grenades in a clash with anti-government demonstrators in the capital manama activists have claimed on social media sites that several human rights advocates have been arrested the demonstrators have been marking martyrs day and annual commemoration of two protesters who were killed in one thousand nine hundred four there are also eyewitness reports of demonstrators using molotov cocktails and clashes with police the government has played down its recent. talks only take things if the protests to stop and negotiate without preconditions already authorities banned public gatherings a few months ago in an attempt to stem almost two years of. people being. arrested

. from americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain believes the situation won't change as long as the government is backed by western powers. but they never. do the other wards. they came under. from in this pressure from the united states to open up their political systems to start a serious dialogue to reform the political situation however no such serious steps has been taken for example we still see attacks on peaceful protests we still see political prisoners released torture still taken place human rights violations are taking place on the only basis the human rights issue as they go into behind not allowing or just in the first place first the law or the king came up with a law that basically banned any kind of peaceful protests that itself is a violation of international law so when people challenge the law that's not

illegal there is a clear double double standard when it comes to u.s. foreign policy in the region especially rain and syria where the rise violations are committed and behind on daily basis however we hear no condemn nation from the united states and we would like to see a larger scale of. diplomatic pressure and international pressure on the bahraini regime the cradle of the arab spring tunisia has marked two years since the start of the uprisings with an angry attack on the country's president people threw stones at months of mizuki he was visiting a town where the protesters set himself on far triggering the string of uprisings across the region and his art is only in a political reports many of those who helped usher in the changes in two thousand and ten say they are still no better off. it began here in tunisia two years ago when a poverty stricken french vendor serve himself on fire in an act of desperation some

say he was a hero others say he was a drunkard with a history of psychological problems whatever more hala was this is real motivation was his act of self-immolation sort of a string of events which became known as the arab spring decades old regimes were toppled what came to replace them is hardly what most of the people in these countries had in mind when they were doing the revolutions they wanted freedom of speech and free elections bred on their tables and jobs what they got seems to be a very different result situationist war strife comparison to. comparison to the years before. the revolution personally i don't feel safe. when we see. all the violence of the police sore or of. our. ever unpoliced man attacked by by some nationalist. and

there are less freedoms right now when it comes to and there were freedoms there are attacks on individual freedoms every day i received so many messages from girls saying but they were. straight even by police men. who didn't tolerate their or their way off but there are saying this is to be a common pattern in the countries that i shared the so-called arab spring just two years ago hopes of transition from authoritarian regimes to new democratic forms of government seem to have altered rising islamism economies in shambles and increasing discontent the pattern is the same in tunisia and egypt where people are pouring out on the streets again with a renewed. yes there are only months ago they were rallying in support of the muslim brotherhood and the freedom and justice party during the elections i think

a lot of people did vote for the muslim brotherhood in egypt because they wanted economic changes not just getting rid of mubarak or having morsi and morsi no he's obviously you know very different political figure in terms of his ideology is carried on much the same policies in terms of economic policy in libya the uprising took a bloody turn moammar gadhafi who ruled the country for over forty years was deposed and killed in two thousand and eleven and he merely being a government has been struggling to control parts of the country going as far as besieging the entire town of bani walid for allegedly providing shelter to diehard khadafi supporters the are using heavy machinery to demolish the demolished houses that can't be using now. guys again it's just a feeling people children and now really sick reaming we would not humanity of the one of the two please help us save our family. i got this time to make libya

now the quirk of a place where no one can stop them and they have unlimited money and weapons the western leaders were quick to praise changes across the middle east they said it was the beginning of a new democratic era for the region but the model of democracy they may have had in mind doesn't seem to be the right fit i think it has to be a different type of a democratic system the democracy that the u.s. would like to impose upon egypt tunisia and morocco and the other countries throughout the region and even libya where what was waged last year to topple the gadhafi government is not suitable to the people inside of that region in tunisia in and out of r.t. . crowds are gathering in spanish cities to protest against the government's cuts and reforms hundreds of thousands of demonstrations called by the country's top

labor union and social groups will continue into tomorrow well let's not talk to economists yanis varoufakis he's joining me now live now. are you there. i'm expecting that we can talk to us. very i think you learned that live there in athens sorry about that now hundreds of thousands are expected to protest in fifty five spanish cities today how will the government's determination to continue with . i don't believe it will affect the government. because they don't have a plan b. this is a government like the one greece like the one island which is put all its eggs in the basket of. agreement with germany and to do something about it will take a lot more than one or two demonstrations it will take the risk of losing an

election could change the course of the spanish government very much afraid or. it would take the possibility of losing. if. you start thinking that perhaps. outside and you talk about a change of government could we see political change after all you also made a similar comparison with what's going on in greece and there of course we've seen violent riots and that resulted eventually in the election of a technocratic government there could we see spain possibly heading the same way as greece. there's no doubt that that precisely this process is going to be followed through to spain but it will take some time you have to remember. the greek crisis. and

even though there was a great deal of this content towards the socialist government between two thousand and nine and two thousand and twelve the student managed to hang on wide along why does not get that the spanish government of the moment we've got our voice governor was elected after the sources were overthrown so already there was a government that well by the wait wait by the stuff of the crisis so even though the. process of course said it needed to be a deeper crisis moment there would be this vicious cycle is going bring about certain. political spending blows and i think the government still has quite a little quite a lot of with the states and is it not know doing the right thing in response to what's going on in the medical industry is a such of the medical workers on sunday we saw doctors and nurses protesting

against the privatizing the hospitals but surely that would make more money available for medical workers and save the government from having to pay them themselves wouldn't it to . some extent you're right but let's get let's move the gravy train for something that. is a combination of the glocks of the banks and the forming of the other states that. if you take these injunctions the capacity of the. hospital up and coming in a skeleton system is going to be very steep cloud pulling the development of the real estate in the body that has. but i think we'll have to leave it there for the moment we haven't got a very good line actually thanks very much indeed we had most of it but. joining me live in athens u.k.

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wealthy british style. that. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with. the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines cons a report. on t.v. live here in moscow welcome back and visit is very well welcome environmentally friendly energy looks like a reasonable solution when natural resources are running low and exploiting them becomes more dangerous the u.k. wants fifteen percent of the country's energy needs to be covered by renewable sources by twenty twenty but that could prove too costly for the public as all

reports. wind turbines turn in the breeze they might not generate much power but they're certainly putting people in a spin it's a route that dividing david cameron's coalition government to get his energy minister says he's against wind farms and enough is enough while his energy secretary says he's got no hope for them who speaks for the government the energy secretary or the energy minister or the prime minister but in this case he doesn't seem quite sure there's been no change to alter a new energy but in the same breath he hinted the number of wind farms could be reviewed after current targets are fulfilled this would anger the liberals but greatly pleased those who say wind farms are an expensive waste of time such as landowner philip merrick's who lives near little cheney caught wind farm the locals were united against it every single democratically local organization that's the

councils were against it but of course the developers very careful they dished out a lot of money to locals and of course that bought a bit of support amazingly wind farms have got a p.r. . campaign behind them but people do think seem to think that they're helpful to the environment which of course they're not this one's been open since two thousand and eight and during that time output has improved but it's coming from a pretty low base at only twenty one and a half percent capacity in its first year to just twenty six percent last year. there are twenty six wind turbines behind me each one of which costs in the region of two million pounds to erect according to locals we've come on a good day all the wind turbines are currently working usually they say that's not the case and a lot of the time they're just standing there and that's the rub people need electricity twenty four seven not just when the wind's blowing so wind power still

needs supplementing by fossil fueled power stations but despite its shortcomings the taxpayer folks out fifty percent of its running costs are subsidies the right way to encourage an industry to mature or are actually what you're doing i think what we're doing is we're rewarding in adequate technologies now and indeed we're fossilize ing them or infantilizing them we're actually preventing growth what we really need to save these people yes well if you can improve and you can show that you've got a place you're welcome for the moment we're covering them with gold when in fact they're quite inadequate locals are quick to point out that less than eight kilometers away is a nuclear power station supported by the community as a reliable source of power and local employer unlike the wind farm which is controlled from germany but if david cameron refuses to be blown off course the government will stick to its plans and more than double the amount of on shore wind

power by two thousand and twenty to meet european targets nor smith r.t. can't. the u.k. needs action because it could soon fall into fuel poverty that's according to a new report predicting that thousands of people may be pensioners and the disabled may not be able to afford to keep warm by twenty sixteen story unfolded dot com. on the website of the moment moscow is to ban the adoption of russian children through american sources say by americans and institutions prospective parents as a response to the controversial magnitsky little. bug area has offered to host u.s. troops on its territory the government says it will help boost regional security and assist with the training of bulgaria and soldiers but there's no official confirmation yet as well as no indication of how many american troops may be housed in garrett let's now talk to the war activist brian baca so why does the u.s. want its troops in. well you know

when the soviet union collapsed twenty years ago and when the east european and central european countries that were part of the warsaw pact dissolved from that pact there was an expectation at least by some in the west that there would be a peace dividend that there would be an end to militarism and that instead of spending inordinate amounts of money on military the us would be able to spend things on on social programs and to alleviate poverty in the chronic problems that exist in the united states and elsewhere but in fact we've seen that there is a strong motive force to maintain the cold war even without the soviet union and to incorporate the countries of eastern and central europe the former warsaw pact countries into an american sphere of influence through the medium of nato and so i think what the what the troop deployment the creation of more bases there already for. the corp of this as part of the nato strategy is one

a threat to russia a threat to the national sovereignty of the people of bug area because they have foreign military bases and it incorporates both gary and makes it more secure as part of an american political and economic as well as military formation so as they say this is to boost regional security this is in effect then boosting ball gary is security i mean is ball gary in a location that justifies u.s. assistance. well there's really no justification at all i really think we have to understand nato in the creation in development of u.s. military bases which are always done under the pretext of security whether it be american security or regional security or global security what that really is is a method by which that country and its economy and its political leaders become securely fastened to to washington both in terms of the incorporation of u.s.

military equipment selling u.s. military goods abroad which is a big business here but more than anything having undue influence in the host country you really can't be a free country and a free people and have foreign troops on your on your soil but then again both gary is a nato member it does have the right to the u.s. to help train its troops doesn't it. well of course i mean formally legally yes it does i think that's part of a strategy to court favor with washington to court favor with the u.s. military industrial complex doesn't really help the people involved. people involved area are really u.s. military bases in order to secure their own future or to help their economy i think in fact it creates a sort of neo colonial type relationship may be good for the. area but not so good for working people leave it there thank you very much indeed brian back around you

were activist joining me live there from the u.s. thank you opposition groups in egypt have called on their supporters to stage a nationwide protest to challenge the outcome of the first round of the referendum on the new islamist backed constitution they claim the vote was marred by widespread violations with rights groups calling for a rerun of saturday's poll results suggest fifty six percent of egyptians approve of the draft constitution which is supported by president morsi and the muslim brotherhood but the opposition says the document is poorly drafted and turns a constitution into an islamist code because opposition alliance the national salvation front has called on people to take to the streets to defend their freedoms ahead of the referendum second stage this saturday a group spokesman. is hoping that the opposition's complaints won't remain unheard . right now we want the authorities the election commission to look into the violations and to decide by itself whether this is good enough in order to repeat the first round and in case we are going to go to the second round we want to make sure that the violations are not going to be repeated particularly in terms of the

lack of judicial supervision there were not enough judges yesterday to look into the or to supervise the vote we also complained about preventing our observers the preservers of human rights groups from attending the counting process according to a decision by the judges we want to attend and be present during the counting and we also complaining about the fact that the muslim brotherhood members were continuing their propaganda inside the polling stations until the last minute. trying to influence voters and tried to convince them to vote yes for the constitution claiming that voting no would that mean that you are an infidel or that's reagan is them so we're still holding a lot of hope that president morsi will listen to the voice of wisdom and consider that this is a draft constitution that's dividing the country even if we take the results that are being circulated right now it's not enough definitely in a country off the revolution to have a constitution that's approved by a fifty something just i want to live in moscow up next how to put a stop to the a b c obesity pandemic spreading across the developed world will be

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eat but should we be taxed in the name of health when it comes to food this is one of the aims of the so-called fat tax governments all over the world and throughout history have pushed policies to shape behavior in the name of public health so should food be subject to punitive taxation. to cross out the so-called fat tax i'm joined by my guests in new york meanwhile she is the president of national action against obesity jeff steer he is a senior fellow at the national center for public policy research and donica moore she's a woman's health expert an advocate physician educator and a media commentator on cross talk rules and effect folks that means you can jump in anytime you want me i probably should lose a few pounds because of the food i eat so should that food that i eat be taxed to teach me to eat wetter better and to be have better health.